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Author

Gregory, Paul R.

Title Women of the Gulag [electronic resource] : portraits of five remarkable lives / Paul R. Gregory.

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Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 2013.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xiii, 246 p. : ill., maps, ports.
Series	Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 631
	Hoover Institution Press publication ; 631.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Terror's human face -- Stalin : struggles and successes -- Agnessa : elite NKVD wife -- Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family -- Evgenia : luxury with a beast -- Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia -- Fekla : child of the kulaks -- Stalin : the storm descends -- Agnessa : crashing a funeral -- Stalin : launching the great terror -- Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide -- Maria : a narrow escape -- Evgenia : socialist realist -- Adile : the master will not abandon us -- Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik -- Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat -- Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master -- Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland -- Evgenia : losing everything -- Adile : return and arrest -- Fekla : face of the future -- Aftermath.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	GULag NKVD.
	Women political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
	Political persecution -- Soviet Union.
	Concentration camps -- Soviet Union.
	Prisons -- Soviet Union.
	Forced labor -- Soviet Union.
	Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780817915742 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780817915766 (electronic bk.)